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JohnnyEnzyme

@ JohnnyEnzyme @piefed.social

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Founder of European Graphic Novels, Aug '23 on Lemm.ee.

"Man rests from one labor by doing another." That also works for managing chronic pain, as I've discovered...

  • This is stupid

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  • The supermarket booze around here is so crap that at some point I thought about making a little still. Later, I was dissuaded by the facts that: A) that's apparently illegal here, B) could probably break my lease, and C) IIRC it can actually be a fire hazard, or something.

    As an alternative, for a while there I was using a Brita filter to improve my cheap booze. It actually works, I found, altho takes a lot of cycles, like at least seven or so to have a noticeable effect. Also uses up the filters really quick, and they're not cheap. If I ever try that again, I'll have to research what a cost effective alternative might be.

    One other issue is that during warmer months, fruit flies inevitably get in the apparatus and quickly render it disgusting...

  • This is stupid

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  • I haven't heard of that specifically, but sometimes I'll see a random video of some guy guzzling an entire bottle or two of whiskey, vodka or similar booze to impress... whoever. It seems like those types do indeed die with some regularity.

  • The Chemist’s War

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  • ...the prevalent thinking at the time was “they deserved it”

    This seems to be a prevalent thought across the States, right to this day. Sure, there's no doubt a general, human nature component to it, but it seems to me that it's got extra venom in the US, and I'm not totally sure why.

    One idea might be that there are elements of Puritan thinking that seemed to flow in to the permanent national culture, and of course, medieval Christian thinking in general probably promotes the thinking, as something that flows out of the whole 'good and evil,' 'heaven and hell" mindset.

    Bah, sorry for going way off tangent like that, but it got me thinking...

  • Toy Story 5 - Official Trailer (2026)

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  • Pixar and Disney stockholders?

  • Welcome to r/bald, providing an online safe space for receding hairlines for over 15 years

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  • Right, altho I'd argue that looking at the posts and examples in that sub, we can also see plenty of people who jump the gun and shave their heads too early, when they could at least last a few more years using Toppik, etc. The right haircut and hair fibre use can do a remarkable job extending a reasonable hairline.

    That said, I do agree that some people wait too long, aesthetically-speaking.

    But the other thing about shaving your head is that you have to keep doing it indefinitely, from that point on. For many, that's probably just a little extra time in the shower every 2-3 days or so, but for some people that can still be kinda problematic.

  • Welcome to r/bald, providing an online safe space for receding hairlines for over 15 years

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  • You're... promoting a Reddit sub? oO

  • As soon as people could read, ages ago when they had fuck all to do they sat down and wrote (books, letters) for fun. Now, when people have fuck all to do they write internets for fun. NO CHANGE!

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  • Truth.

  • As soon as people could read, ages ago when they had fuck all to do they sat down and wrote (books, letters) for fun. Now, when people have fuck all to do they write internets for fun. NO CHANGE!

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  • Your shower thought is amusing, but I fundamentally disagree with it in real-world terms. That's my overall point here.

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    YSK: 'It turned out to be a tougher one': Trump says he was wrong about ending war in Ukraine

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  • As soon as people could read, ages ago when they had fuck all to do they sat down and wrote (books, letters) for fun. Now, when people have fuck all to do they write internets for fun. NO CHANGE!

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  • If you say so. But hobbyists are still doing crafts & stuff that mankind was doing thousands of years ago.

    Or, look at mini-painting, par exemple. That's something artists and tacticians were involved in since near the dawn of civilisation, and today, it's kind of a super-hobby.

  • Prohibition in Russia (Spoiler: It also failed.)

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  • Russians without their Wodka is some kind of Mao-level idiotic backfire.

    I wonder if Nicholas II was getting terrible advice from some advisor(s), and was just too sheltered and naive to know it.

  • Do you think humans can be cloned as of currently? (I mean, not just a specific part of the body but a whole human)

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  • As soon as people could read, ages ago when they had fuck all to do they sat down and wrote (books, letters) for fun. Now, when people have fuck all to do they write internets for fun. NO CHANGE!

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  • I'd say that's on a case-by-case basis. Hobbyists still weave on looms, even though there's not strict need. People still build radio sets from scratch, and yadda-yadda...

    One of the things that always interested me about living in a commune is that there'd be a need to do stuff like this to some extent, on an ongoing basis.

  • What is one or more pieces of media you've consumed that kept making more content but needed to just end?

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  • Musicians that essentially jump the shark after formerly making great art. Paul McCartney and The Cranberries come to mind, but I reckon the list is vast.

    RIP Dolores.

  • How One Dog Saved 16 Humans

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  • (a mix between a terrier and a hound)

    I was going to say... a hound's head mounted on a capybara's body?

    RIP Trevor, though. That's a poetically sad ending.

  • The Spread of Homo sapiens

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  • Interesting that they repeatedly use the word "hominims" and not "humans." The point being that hominims includes all species of humans and chimpanzees.

    So, they're talking about any of a number of possible human species (there were six as recently as 50Kyrs ago) and possibly even some very clever chimps.

  • As soon as people could read, ages ago when they had fuck all to do they sat down and wrote (books, letters) for fun. Now, when people have fuck all to do they write internets for fun. NO CHANGE!

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  • ...when they had fuck all to do they sat down and wrote (books, letters) for fun.

    Just for the record, before the invention of radio, TV and the mass production of goods, they also had a variety of real-world crafts they could do and things they could make for fun & profit.

  • When I eat a handful of chocolate-covered espresso beans, my stomach functions like a coffee maker to brew a small, internal caffè mocha

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  • I didn't even know they were a thing.

    ...some brands contain over 300 mg of caffeine per 40 g serving.

    And pretty effective, it looks like!

  • [Samedi musique] Qu'avez-vous écouté cette semaine ?

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